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Heinemann 1922. First trade appearance of Rosenberg’s poetry. 500 copies printed. Ed. By Gordon Bottomley

Houghton Mifflin 1929 + variant (2nd issue?) (from Dave Golemon) Noel Douglas 1930
US & UK 1sts. of this autobiographical novel of the US Marines at Verdun, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, Soissons & the Armistice.

Dent 1929. Jacket by RK? (probably not Rockwell Kent). The original artwork for the jacket is shown alongside.
A blistering novel of the German War experience, with a strong note of Militaristic Nationalism.

Paragon Printing Works 1916. 50 copies printed. Hand corrections said to be by Rosenberg, though more likely by his sister.

Rosenberg’s 3 Privately Printed volumes. Not dust jackets, I know, but a shame to separate them from the rest of the collection. ‘Moses’ contains a couple of War Poems. Both ‘Night & Day’ & my copy of ‘Poems’ once belonged to Rosenberg’s sister, Annie Wynick

Aberdeen University Press 1934. Jacket by Leonard Smith. The Aberdeen Univ. Company of the Gordon Highlanders in the War (from JRF).

Grosset & Dunlap Photoplay editions 1930 & 1927. Dawn Patrol dramatised by Guy Fowler from Monk Saunders’ Novel ‘ The Flight Commander’. Most of his novels take an anti-war stance. He was briefly married to Fay Wray & committed suicide in1940

Hamilton 1936. Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. German flier on the Eastern & Western Fronts

Hodder 1916. Her Biography ‘The Lovely Sergeant’ by Alan Burgess was published in 1963 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Benn 1930. Service with the RNAS throughout the war from Belgium to the Dardanelles to Great Yarmouth (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Readers Library eds. of the above novels (1928 - 9) from Jeremy Carson

Grosset & Dunlap 1930

(from Neil Cournoyer)

Hodder 1931. DSO, Cabinet Minister & close ass. of Churchill, Seely commanded the Canadian Mounted Brigade & was badly gassed in 1918

Coward McCann 1931 US ed of ‘War, Wine & Women’

Doran 1920 The scout squadron over the Western Front.(from Colophon Bookshop)

Macmillan 1931. A French Lt. Comes to terms with the blindness inflicted in the war. (from William Erti)

Blackwell 1932. A Royal Engineer tells of the lighter side of training & active service near the War’s end (from Tom Donovan)

Heinemann 1931 Cheap ed. (f.p.1930 same jacket). Recollections from the Boer War to the Somme

Chatto 1916. A particularly fine series of letters with an excellent description of a bombing raid over Antwerp. Recently republished.

Benn 1928 & Payson & Clarke 1928. Not a normal candidate for the site but the War suffuses the whole book to such an extent that it gives a good view of the prevailing attitudes at the time. The body is moved during the 2-minute silence on Armistice Day!

(UK ed. courtesy of Goldeneye Books & the US ed. from Facsimile Dust Jackets)

Times Pub. Co. 1934 Ed. by Owen Rutter. A History of the 7th Service Batt. Royal Sussex (Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Massie 1938. Novel of the encounter between the pride of the German Fleet and the British Navy. We sink it in the end!

Hodder 1918. With the Gordon Highlanders of the 51st Highland Div. In France May 1915 - Nov.1916

Scribner 1931. A novel set on the Russian Front during the Revolution. The author served in both the Belgian & Russian armies before settling in America.

Harper Bros. 1918 A War correspondents view of Gallipoli & the new Turkey (from Geoffrey Miller)

Privately printed by the author in NZ (1930?) Card covers. A collection of soldier’s stories (from Andrew Harrison)

Doran 1929. Jacket by Mac Ginnes. The horror s of War through the eyes of a child.

Hodder 1932. More colourful 2nd edition

Nisbet 1923 Western Front 1915-1918 Loos, Somme, Arras, Cambrai & the final advance. (from Tom Donovan)